ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews Kant's position going into the main argument, the deduction of freedom, and what it does and how it is supposed to work. Consider the traditional motivation of the expected argument for morality from freedom. It is evident that our actions and their effects are in the natural world. As such, if the nature of their causal history were in no way distinct from that of other events in the natural world, there would be no more reason to attribute moral value to them, or moral responsibility to us for them, than there is to attribute it to the mountain for the landslide. Freedom must be possible if morality is, but freedom is a condition which can make no sense of any kind if our understanding of the metaphysics of causality, of our actions and their effects in the world, is exhausted by what empirical science or theoretical philosophy can teach us.
